Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 10:58     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
Get the app called Toogoodtogo. It generally has very good deals. You may not get exactly what you want, but there are lots of restaurants participating.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 10:29     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
I like to go to HT on a Thursday for their $5 fried chicken deal but I buy the already cooled and refrigerated ones from the prepared food case. Easy to transport and great on its own or turned into a salad.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 09:39     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Five Guys is notoriously expensive and not good.

If you want healthy options and can stick to them, Golden Corral before 4 pm is a bargain on weekdays.


It used to be a cheap meal. 3-4 burgers and a large fries and we were good. Now it’s quite expensive. 😞


It's because the price of beef has shot through the roof. Opt for a different protein.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 08:30     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Five Guys is notoriously expensive and not good.

If you want healthy options and can stick to them, Golden Corral before 4 pm is a bargain on weekdays.


It used to be a cheap meal. 3-4 burgers and a large fries and we were good. Now it’s quite expensive. 😞


Agree Five Guys has gotten crazy. Go to The Habit instead. They have a family deal for $40 or $45 I think and I prefer their burgers.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 08:09     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
Anonymous wrote:If you’re near Gaithersburg then Ixta for tacos.


Or La Gula (Germantown)

Or the taco bar - large torta especial can feed 3 for $12.
Anonymous
Post 03/28/2025 07:58     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
If you’re near Gaithersburg then Ixta for tacos.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 22:38     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
Anonymous wrote:Five Guys is notoriously expensive and not good.

If you want healthy options and can stick to them, Golden Corral before 4 pm is a bargain on weekdays.


It used to be a cheap meal. 3-4 burgers and a large fries and we were good. Now it’s quite expensive. 😞
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 22:22     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
Buy one whole pizza from costco. Eat with salad and fruits.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 22:07     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is OP. Thank you for these ideas! We both love Chipotle, and I love Cava but my kid really does not. And feeding her is 99% of the point. So unfortunately that's a no go. Same with Seoul Spice. I love it. She does not.

Get one bowl from chipotle with double meat and split it.

I do this with my kid often...not necessarily Chipotle, but any fast casual place. Even the more expensive ones, and I don't typically double the meat. The portions are usually huge at these places.

We aren't on a budget, it's just that I don't like wasting so much food.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 22:05     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
We split chipotle bowls 2 ways, sometimes we even split it 3 ways.
Same with Cava bowls
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 22:05     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
Ghetto Chinese take-out.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 22:04     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
Anonymous wrote:Mcdonalds is gross and Subway too..! It wss have been okay when we were uoung but it is not even real food and filled with chemicals and toxins. I don’t touch that crap with a
ten foot pole but that ia why I make all my food and snacks at home. No gross cancer causing chemicals..


+1. I side-eye all the comments on this forum when they recommend low grade trash. A lot of people claim to drink McDonald's coffee too. I wouldn't be caught dead in a McDonald's or their drive thru. Have some self respect.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 21:57     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
Go to a diner.
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 21:57     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
We love Moby Dick's. Sometimes on Door Dash they have a buy one get one for a few of their meals. We do pick up to not pay delivery fees. It
Anonymous
Post 03/27/2025 21:49     Subject: Least expensive fast casual restaurant for family dinner
Anonymous wrote:Go to the prepared dinner section of Harris teeter, it’s along the deli area. I believe they’re called HT Traders Ready Made Meals. They look like frozen meals - in a black container with a plastic lid, but they’re refrigerator. They are SO good and a quick microwave heat up. They taste like homemade cooking and are great portions and not crazy calories. I like the meatloaf, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken fajitas, etc so many good options! Try them!


Shhhh don’t tell people about these, I don’t want them to sell out of my favorites